Professor Emma Mason

Head of Department

About

I am currently Head of English and Comparative Literary Studies, and teach on our BA and MA programs. Before becoming HoD, I convened the Philosophy and Literature BA with Eileen John in Philosophy. After studying at the University of Cardiff-Wales (BA English Literature; MA Critical and Cultural Theory), I completed my PhD at the University of Warwick and University of Madison-Wisconsin, and went on to a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Corpus Christi, Oxford. I have held Visiting Fellowships at the University of Madison-Wisconsin and the Huntington Library, California, and am the founder and director of the research groups CoRAL (Comparative Religions and Literatures) and PAW (Poetry at Warwick).

I work on late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century literature and religion, with a focus on poetry, and am broadly interested in religion and ecology, affect theory, and philosophy and literature. My book Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith was published in 2018 with Oxford University Press; and I'm currently writing Weird Faith in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Theologies at Work with Mark Knight, with whom I edit the Bloomsbury monograph series New Directions in Religion and Literature.